Application and researching of slip trailing decoration on ceramic surfaces

With the Neolitic Age, human being started to make forms of clay and to decorate the surfaces of the formed clay. Ceramics parts had been decorated even before the glaze for ceramic decorating was invented. These were the earliest decoration techniques pressing with fingers and scratching the ceramic with a sharp pointed tool. Afterwards men started to use some colored clay and develop techniques leading to slip decorating tecnique. On ceramics surfaces they used such slip decorating techniques as slip trailing, sgrafitto, mishima, macho, cutting, aplication, under-glaze, in-glaze and on-glaze. The trailing decoration, exlained as making patterns on ceramics surfaces like line, dot, hand writing and vegetal patterns with trailing slip or glaze through a pump and creating different patterns from them, has it is own way to be applied in various cultures in history. Impressed with original designs developed by mixing colors on ceramics surfaces, men found themselves in the research for new methods on trailing decoration. In this research, the first chapter searches definition and history of ceramic, definition and history of ceramic decoration and the designs used on ceramic surfaces. The second chapter includes definition of trailing decoration, history of trailing decoration and the centers the trailing technique has been found in Anatolia culture. The third chapter explaines all the steps of trailing decoration on ceramics surfaces. Explanation of these steps includes the information on preparing the clay to be formed and decorated with trailing method, forming the clay, preparing the slip and trailing on various kinds of clays, drying, firing, glazing the clay, materials used for trailing decoration, artists working on trailing technique and opinion on trailing decoration. In the four the chapter that is the final chapter, are made some original samples of trailing decoration and showed pictures of them.